Mourning Modernism Postmodernism

Author : T. Clewell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230274250
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism written by T. Clewell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mourning, Modernism, Postmodernism traces the emergence of a fundamentally new way of writing about individual and collective mourning, demonstrating how a refusal of consolation and closure succeeds in promoting a progressive cultural politics crucial for reimaging gender, racial, and sexual subjects.

Author : Lecia Rosenthal
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823233979
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mourning Modernism written by Lecia Rosenthal and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the writing of catastrophe, mass death, and collective loss in twentieth-century literature and criticism. With particular focus on texts by Woolf, Benjamin, and Sebald, it engages the century's preoccupation with world-ending, a mixed rhetoric of totality and rupture, finitude and survival, the end and its posthumous remainders. The spectacle of world-ending proliferates as a form of desire, an ambivalent compulsion to consume and outlive the end of all. In conversation with discussions of the century's passionfor the real, the author reads the century's obsession with negative forms of ending and outcome. Drawing connections between current interest in trauma and the sublime, she reframes the terms of the modernist experiment and its aesthetics from the lens of a late sublime

Author : Neil Edward Brooks
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042021624
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mourning After written by Neil Edward Brooks and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have we moved beyond postmodernism? Did postmodernism lose its oppositional value when it became a cultural dominant? While focusing on questions such as these, the articles in this collection consider the possibility that the death of a certain version of postmodernism marks a renewed attempt to re-negotiate and perhaps re-embrace many of the cultural, literary and theoretical assumptions that postmodernism seemly denied outright. Including contributions from some of the leading scholars in the field - N. Katherine Hayles, John D. Caputo, Paul Maltby, Jane Flax, among others - this collection ultimately comes together to perform a certain work of mourning. Through their explorations of this current epistemological shift in narrative and theoretical production, these articles work to "get over" postmodernism while simultaneously celebrating a certain postmodern inheritance, an inheritance that can offer us important avenues to understanding and affecting contemporary culture and society.

Author : Patricia Rae
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756171
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism and Mourning written by Patricia Rae and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Modernism and Mourning examine the work of mourning in modernist literature, or more precisely, its propensity for resisting this work. Drawing from recent developments in the theory and cultural history of mourning, its contributors explore the various ways in which modernist writers repudiate Freud's famous injunction to mourners to work through their grief, endorsing instead a resistant, or melancholic mourning that shapes both their themes and their radical experiments with form. The emerging picture of the pervasive influence of melancholic mourning in modernist literature casts new light on longstanding critical arguments, especially those about the politics of modernism. It also makes clear the pertinence of this literature to the present day, in which the catastrophic losses of 9/11, of retaliatory war, of racially motivated genocide, of the AIDS epidemic, have made the work of mourning a subject of widespread interest and debate. Patricia Rae is Head of the Department of English at Queen's University.

Author : Ruben Borg
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004390359
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fantasies of Self-Mourning written by Ruben Borg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on a recurring theme in twentieth-century film and literature, the fantasy of surviving one’s own death, Fantasies of Self-Mourning describes the formal features of a posthuman, cyborgian imaginary at work in modernism.

Author : Francis Barker
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719037450
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and the Re-reading of Modernity written by Francis Barker and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022656911X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abiding Grace written by Mark C. Taylor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-war, post-industrialism, post-religion, post-truth, post-biological, post-human, post-modern. What succeeds the post- age? Mark C. Taylor returns here to some of his central philosophical preoccupations and asks: What comes after the end? Abiding Grace navigates the competing Hegelian and Kierkegaardian trajectories born out of the Reformation and finds Taylor arguing from spaces in between, showing how both narratives have shaped recent philosophy and culture. For Hegel, Luther’s internalization of faith anticipated the modern principle of autonomy, which reached its fullest expression in speculative philosophy. The closure of the Hegelian system still endures in the twenty-first century in consumer society, financial capitalism, and virtual culture. For Kierkegaard, by contrast, Luther’s God remains radically transcendent, while finite human beings and their world remain fully dependent. From this insight, Heidegger and Derrida developed an alternative view of time in which a radically open future breaks into the present to transform the past, demonstrating that, far from autonomous, life is a gift from an Other that can never be known. Offering an alternative genealogy of deconstruction that traces its pedigree back to readings of Paul by way of Luther, Abiding Grace presents a thoroughgoing critique of modernity and postmodernity’s will to power and mastery. In this new philosophical and theological vision, history is not over and the future remains endlessly open.

Author : Simon Critchley
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522855148
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Dead Philosophers written by Simon Critchley and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diogenes died by holding his breath. Plato allegedly died of a lice infestation. Diderot choked to death on an apricot. Nietzsche made a long, soft-brained and dribbling descent into oblivion after kissing a horse in Turin. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the last words (gasps) of modern-day sages, The Book of Dead Philosophers chronicles the deaths of almost 200 philosophers-tales of weirdness, madness, suicide, murder, pathos and bad luck. In this elegant and amusing book, Simon Critchley argues that the question of what constitutes a 'good death' has been the central preoccupation of philosophy since ancient times. As he brilliantly demonstrates, looking at what the great thinkers have said about death inspires a life-affirming enquiry into the meaning and possibility of human happiness. In learning how to die, we learn how to live.

Author : Madelyn Detloff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521896428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Persistence of Modernism written by Madelyn Detloff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the persistence of modernism into the twenty-first century, and argues for its continued relevance in relation to contemporary traumas.

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Publisher : Brill
ISBN 13 : 9401208328
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English written by and published by Brill. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the short story help to redefine modernism, postmodernism and their interrelationship? What is the status of the short story in modern literary history? These are the central questions that the essays collected in this volume try to answer from different perspectives through readings of short fiction in English and accounts of the genre’s theorisations. The essays by a group of international scholars tackle theoretical issues that are central in approaches to both “movements” such as periodisation, autonomy, high vs. popular literature, totality vs. fragmentation, surface vs. depth, otherness, representation, and, above all, the subject and its vicissitudes. Because it blends theory-based arguments into the approaches to the short fiction of mainly canonical authors (Joyce, Woolf, Lewis, Ballard, Carter, Rushdie, or Wallace), Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Short Story in English is of interest not only to readers and scholars of the short story, but also to those coming from the fields of literary theory and literary history.